Typical 419 scam. One of billions sent out yearly. A cursory check of the email header should reveal the real source of the email, probably somewhere in Africa or Eastern Europe. The court should tune up its spam filter.

1:43 pm March 24, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

More proof if you needed it that the USA resembles more and more a Third World country, with the government ignoring schemes like Madoff's, which was just technically more advanced than the Congo letter's get rich scheme. By the way, has anyone else noticed that the barrel price of oil is rising in lockstep with bailout funds given Goldman Sachs and MorganStanley? These then investment houses used the International Commodities Exchange in London (which they were partners in) to buy so many billions of dollars in West Texas oil futures that they helped drive the price of crude oil to over $140 a barrel last summer. When the barrel price of oil collapsed down to $35 a barrel in weeks, these two companies were on the hook for billions in losses. Good thing Treasury Secretary Paulson used TARP funds to bail them out, so they could recover from their colossal losses on oil futures. Now Goldman Sachs and MorganStanley, with access to Federal Reserve discount window funds, are again driving up the price of oil by buying massive amounts of oil futures covertly on the ICE.

1:44 pm March 24, 2009

DH wrote:

"Redacted" is the best part. They're really covering all the bases over there at the USA office.

1:55 pm March 24, 2009

Anonymous wrote:

You're asking questions about how a sleep-deprived, overworked, under-paid, ADA didn't realize it was a scam email?

2:58 pm March 24, 2009

anon33321 wrote:

While it's dumb to submit something like this in such a high-profile case but anyone who's worked in complex litigation can understand. You have a pile of documents. Some paralegal or case clerk is sorting them. Maybe a junior lawyer will take a cursory look before filing them, but you sorta assume something this stupid won't get into the pile in the first place. Now I'm sure someone in the USAO is really embarrassed and will get a talking to but at the end of the day what can you do. You can't expect senior lawyers to go through every freaking document and even if they did that's no guarantee they'd find this.

4:04 pm March 24, 2009

Thomo wrote:

What's this about Madoff and a Conga Line? Was it the one that sashayed around the Palm Beach Club, or the L.I. club, pulling its participants along like mice behind their pied piper? Oh, sorry, I see now, it's about the CongO.

8:15 pm March 24, 2009

Aw come on wrote:

I don't think anyone really thinks it's a big deal that was stuck in there...it's just funny. Right? That's how I read this.

8:24 pm March 24, 2009

The Godfather wrote:

1:43 -- The Obama Administration is looking more and more like Godfather III, with Goldman Sachs in for the crooked cardinal. Today's bailout scheme is perfect: government guarantees "private investments" that are allocated to a select group, apparently to be selected by Timothy Geithner. Geithner also craves for the power to seize all kinds of private firms (why would anyone invest in them if the government can nationalize them, like Castro did to U.S. sugar?). Geithner is beginning to look like Carlos Slim, intent upon becoming the richest man in the world with a little help from his friends in high places. Or maybe he's just a busy public servant doing his best.

11:00 am March 25, 2009

Anon wrote:

So glad they included this email. One scam artist trying to benefit from the implosion of another scam artist's scheme. How perfect is that?!

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